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Old October 9th 15, 02:41 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Alan Browne
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Default Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?

On 2015-10-08 22:16, Ed Light wrote:
I would never use FAT 32 as it falls apart from crashes in a way NTFS
usually doesn't. I would use NTFS.


For interoperability it's best to use FAT32. I've never had any issue
with FAT32 at all in 20 years or so that it's been around (that's an
awful lot of machines and disks and flash drives.

Macs don't write NTFS w/o 3rd party drivers. One I tried was not very
good and was very slow when a "large" job had to be done.